High Treason and Low Comedy : : Egon Erwin Kisch’s Cabaret Plays as History and Art.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin : : Ibidem Verlag,, 2020. {copy}2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introducing Egon Erwin Kisch, the Raging Reporter
- Chapter 2. Notes on the Plays: Sources and Translation
- Chapter 3. The Pursuit
- Chapter 4. Kisch and the Redl Case: Reportage into Melodrama
- Chapter 5. The Ascension of Toni Gallows to Heaven
- Chapter 6. Toni Gallows, a Real Prague Legend: Feuilleton into Comic Fantasy
- Chapter 7. Kisch's Career as Playwright
- Chapter 8. Theatrical Context: German Playwrights and Weimar Comedy and Cabaret
- Chapter 9. Afterlife of the Redl Story: Films, on the English Stage, a Slovak Novel
- Chapter 10. The Toni Gallows Story on Film, the Prague Stage Again, and Television
- Chapter 11. Transformations: History, Historical Fiction, and Fantasy
- Notes
- Bibliographical Note on earlier Kisch editions and the Kisch Gesammelte Werke
- Bibliography
- Index.